Based in: 3700 Koppers Street, Suite 405, Baltimore, MD, 21227 Year founded: 1996 Technology: Steam reforming gasification Fuel type: TRI’s high-quality, medium-BTU syngas can be converted into a wide range of downstream biofuel and biochemical products. Since 2003, a TRI gasifier has been in commercial-scale operation at Norampac’s Trenton (Ontario) containerboard mill, gasifying black liquor […]
6 major policy decisions and issues await the US elections. What are the chasms to be crossed, how might it change the path of your technology, grant, company or crop And, who can show you the way? OK, maybe you feel pretty secure, and that’s a good thing. Maybe your grant is locked in for […]
In Sweden, Volvo Trucks have successfully tested biofuel derived from the black liquor wastes produced at a pulp with 10 trucks driving on the fuel since last autumn. Carbon emissions from the fuel, known as bio-DME, are roughly 95% lower than fossil diesel. The company said bio-DME could replace half of the diesel consumed in […]
There’s nothing growing faster in the bio-based world than waste-based projects. Or, rather, is there any disappearing faster than the concept of waste, as bioenergy projects show us how to re-use and re-use and re-use? There are some names that have gone wrong – badly wrong – in bioenergy feedstocks. For example, vomit nut doesn’t […]
Why is China accelerating on industrial biotechnology, just as US pols preach unilateral disarmament on government efforts to foster commercialization? Does the sun rise in the east as it sets in the West? Yes, Digesterati, 2012 is supposed to bring, according to someone’s reading of a Mayan calendar, the end of the world some time […]
The usual suspects, the unusual and some downright shockers amongst the industrial biotech industry’s top downloaded reads. Since the establishment of the Bioenergy Information Zone two years ago, Digest readers have requested a total of 868,880 downloads from our free collection of reports, presentations, and studies. The downloads, out of the 376 files available, form […]
Jumpin’ Jack Flash! It’s a gas, gas, gas! New technologies bring gases into the vanguard of advanced biofuels feedstocks. In traditional biofuels, the story to date been all about solids and liquids – grains, juices, mash, slurries and eventually files, chemicals and biomaterials. A lot of the early companies through the advanced biofuels IPO gate […]
Will the new fermentation technologies completely shatter preconceptions about biofuels and bio-based products – and redefine the way in which Western Civ approaches the production of fuel, food, feed, and fiber? The new Brew Barons are working hard to make it so. The Regents of the University of Washington generally only admit under conditions of […]
In Sweden, Preem has announced that they have developed renewable diesel from Swedish forestry industry residuals. Taking six years and over USD $47 million to develop, the diesel is formulated by processing black liquor from pulp mills. Preem reports that their diesel is molecularly identical to oil based diesel, but due to the fact that […]
As the pulp and paper industry reels from the internet’s impact, biofuels and renewable chemicals are offering value-adds, waste remediation, and new markets In Florida, the affable Rod Young, perhaps the most pre-eminent analyst and forecaster in the pulp & paper industry (and chief economic adviser for RISI, and a pretty good vintner to boot) […]
